The Twilight Zone: People Are Alike All Over (1960)
Season 1, Episode 25
5/10
Strange mission to Mars
4 November 2016
Warning: Spoilers
***SPOILERS*** Blasting off into outer space on the US' first mission to Mars both astronaut biologist Sam Conrad played a 31 year old boyish looking Roddy McDowall and his much older looking partner Mark Marcusson played by Paul Comi, who's in fact four years younger then the youthful looking McDowell,crash land on the red planet with Mark later dying of his injuries. Sam soon finds out that Mars is populated by human looking people who, through mind control or manipulation, speak his own language:Modern English.

Friendly to the extreme the Martians treat Sam as he's a rock & roil or movie star personality with one of them the pretty blonde Teenya, Susan Oliver, falling madly in love with the lucky guy. whining and dining Sam the Martians soon build him a luxury home with all the things necessary for him to enjoy himself with including a kitchenette and bar fully stacked with the finest food and drinks, as well as boxes of Cuban cigars, for him to smoke drink and munch on. But as Sam soon finds out there's a price for all these goodies and it comes unexpectedly when he tries to step outside and get a breath of fresh Martian air as well as a hug and kiss from Teenya.

***SPOILERS*** As his friend Mark kept telling him people are the same all over if not on earth but in the entire universe. Being more or less a freak to the Martinas they decided, without Sam knowledge, to put him on display in a local zoo or monkey cage for all to see and throw bananas and peanuts at him. As for Teenya who fell in love with him and knew all along what her fellow Martinas were planning for Sam she breaks down and cries, as well as check out, in knowing that she was part of this scam in tricking Sam in setting this trap for him to both foolishly and voluntarily walk into.
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